Esotericism, Mysticism, and the Politics of Transcendence in Modern Asia Richard Jackson

Esotericism, Mysticism, and the Politics of Transcendence in Modern Asia Richard JacksonIn this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so called New Age.

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